ATP has just released the official 2015 ATP World Tour Calendar. The major highlight goes to… one more week for the grass season with Stuttgart changing from clay to grass! 2014 ATP world tour will consist of 62 tournaments in 31 different countries all over the world. ATP decided to “(…) The extended grass-court swing…
Official 2014 ATP World Tour Calendar
Now it is official, ATP has just released the official 2014 World Tour Calendar. The major highlight goes to… the brand new ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro! ATP tour goes to South America for good four week streak, after the Australian Open, and ending in Rio de Janeiro week. 2014 ATP world tour will…
Tennis; Davis Cup Ranking: How it works? (Post 5)
The ITF Davis Cup Nations Ranking measures the success of all nations participating in the competition over a ‘rolling’ four year period with recent performance weighted more heavily. After each round the ranking period adjusts and any results outside the adjusted four year period drop off. At the same time, points from the same round for the…
Tennis – Davis Cup: How are ATP points attributed? (Post 4)
From 2009 onwards, players participating in World Group or World Group play-off ties of Davis Cup will earn ATP ranking points, according to the rules below. a) Accumulated points for all Davis Cup play over the preceding 52-week period will count as one result and form part of the ATP World Tour 500 category, the…
Tennis: Davis Cup: Famous players that participated in the competition (Post 3)
The list of tennis legends to have competed in Davis Cup over the years includes most of well-known players’s names. Players such as Fred Perry, Don Budge, Roy Emerson, Rod Laver, Jimmy Connors, Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Mats Wilander, Ivan Lendl, Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker, Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras had successful Davis Cup careers. In recent…
Tennis – Davis Cup: The Evolution of Competition’s Format (Post 2)
In 1905, France, Austria, Belgium and Australasia, a combined team of players from Australia and New Zealand also started competing in the Davis Cup. The inclusion of other countries continued and by the 1920s a bit more that 20 nations regularly participated in the event. The first editions were dominated by USA, Great Britain and Australasia. However, that dominance ended…
Tennis – Calendar for 2013/2014 Major Events
Now that the 2012 season has come to an end with Djokovic’s win in the World Tour finals and Czech Republic taking the Davis Cup only for the 2nd time in their history (defeating Spain), we leave you the 2013-2014 calendar of the major tournaments. It will follow like this: – Australian Open (14 January 2013 and…
Tennis – DAVIS Cup: What are its origins and in what it consists? (Post 1)
The Davis Cup is a Men Nation Tennis Teams’ competition that had its first edition in 1900 with a match between USA and Great Britain that was won 3-0 by the Americans. The Davis Cup was conceived in 1899 originating from an idea of 4 members of the Harvard University tennis team. They had by then the wish to…
Tennis – Masters Cup: Federer Vs Djokovic
After beating Andy Murray by 2 sets nill (7-6, 6-2), who had won the Olympic Title in London 2012 at Federer’s expenses, ATP World Tour Finals record holder (6 victories) Roger Federer will try to achieve his 7th title in his 11th participation in this competition. Federer will play today, in the O2 Arena at 20:00 GMT, against Novak Djokovic that became…
Tennis Hawk Eye – What is it and how does it work?
Hawk-Eye is a complex computer system designed to visually track the trajectory of the ball and display a record of its most statistically likely path as a moving image. Its usage is famous mainly due to its implementation in Tennis matches. This system implemented by the company ‘Hawk-Eye Innovations Ltd’ is also used in Cricket…